Ana Pinto elected as member of GÉANT Board of Directors

10.12.2020

Ana Pinto, Director of the Networks Service at FCCN, has been elected to the GÉANT Board of Directors. GÉANT is the European organization with which the NRENs (National Research and Education Networks) and counterparts of the FCCN unit are linked, in order to project international collaboration initiatives in the field of research and services for the academic and scientific community.

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Géant creates page with more information about EllaLink GeoLab

17.11.2020

The pioneering project that will place, for the first time, an infrastructure to study the ocean floor on a submarine cable already has an information page created by GÉANT.

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National Academic Network increases fibre optic coverage

17.11.2020

Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, inaugurates in Bragança and Vila Real, the first steps of the RCTS100 project - an initiative of the Unit FCCN that will extend the fiber optic footprint of the national academic network (Science, Technology and Society Network - RCTS)

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How do you ensure safe access for remote students and staff?

17.11.2020

Find out how the eduVPN program, promoted in Portugal by Unidade FCCN, facilitates distance working for students, teachers and higher education staff in Portugal.

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Learn about the steps taken by the Unit FCCN to support Distance Learning and Teleworking

06.11.2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a very significant increase in the use of the Unit's services FCCN. Learn about the steps taken to ensure support for distance learning and teleworking.

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Arquivo.pt: The role of digital preservation in open science

05.11.2020

The manager of Arquivo.pt, Daniel Gomes, reveals some of the steps taken to accomplish the mission of "preserving the information published on the Web for scientific and academic purposes".

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EllaLink repeats success at global Carrier Award as best subsea project of the year

30.10.2020

For the second year running, EllaLink has been awarded the Global Carrier prize by Capacity Media for "Best Subsea Project of the Year". EllaLink will enable the creation of a research network between Europe and Latin America throughout the system's lifetime. This project has the collaboration of GÉANT and the National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN) of the Foundation for Science and Technology.

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RCTSAAI. Do you know what federated authentication is?

30.10.2020

Discover the technological possibilities offered by the RCTSaai service - through a single login, you can access all the tools made available by the Unit FCCN to the entire RCTS community*.

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RCAAP marks International Open Access Week

20.10.2020

RCAAP - Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto em Portugal has created a website that publicises activities throughout the country that are linked to the international Open Access week.

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"Educast allows you to manage day-to-day work much better"

20.10.2020

Over the last few years, the Center for Judicial Studies (CEJ) has uploaded more than 7,000 videos to the Educast platform, with tens of thousands of minutes of content on various areas of law. The CEJ's IT and eLearning technician explains why the unit has invested in this service FCCN, detailing some of the main added value found in this connection which, he believes, in times of pandemic, will tend to deepen.

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e-Jornadas 2020: 5 days of meeting and reflection

20.10.2020

From 12 to 16 October, the e-Jornadas 2020 were the virtual meeting point for the community served by FCT's National Scientific Computing Unit (Unidade FCCN), with the sharing of the latest news on FCCN services and projects.

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RCTS CERT organises competition

09.10.2020

National Scientific Computing Unit (RCTS CERT) cybersecurity incident response team hosts a 48-hour "Capture The Flag" event from 13 to 15 October.

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